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Nazi-hunters condemn Mass for WWII Croatia leader Ceremony marking death of Hitler ally Ante Pavelic described as ‘badge of shame’ for Catholic Church By AFP December 29, 2014, 10:21 pm Croatian leader Ante Pavelic (left) pictured with Nazi German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in June 1941. (photo credit: CC BY-SA/Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2008-0612-500/Wikimedia Commons) ZAGREB, Croatia — The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center slammed Monday a Mass in Zagreb to commemorate Croatia’s World War II pro-Nazi leader, claiming it was a “badge of shame” for the Catholic Church. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign up! “It’s hard to believe that in the center of the capital of a member of the European Union, very close to Zagreb’s Jewish community, hundreds of people gathered yesterday to commemorate the memory of one of Europe’s biggest mass murderers,” the head of the center’s Jerusalem office said in a statement. Efraim Zuroff labelled the service marking the 55rd anniversary of Ante Pavelic’s death an “insult to the memory of Pavelic’s hundreds of thousands of innocent victims,” and a “badge of shame for the Catholic Church.” Masses on the anniversary of Pavelic’s death are regularly held in a basilica in downtown Zagreb and in Split, on the Adriatic coast. Pavelic headed a Nazi-allied Croat state from 1941 to 1945. He died in Madrid on December 28, 1959, reportedly from wounds inflicted in an attack on him two years earlier in Buenos Aires, where he had fled after the Axis defeat in 1945. Pavelic’s World War II Ustasha regime killed hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascist Croatians in concentration camps. Almost 90 percent of Croatia’s population of 4.2 million are Roman Catholics. The former Yugoslav republic joined the EU last year. Read more: Nazi-hunters condemn Mass for WWII Croatia leader | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-hunters-condemn-mass-for-wwii-croatia-leader/#ixzz3NL0MPDoL Follow us: @timesofisrael on Twitter | timesofisrael on Facebook -- __,_._,___ -- Ову поруку сте добили зато што сте пријављени на Google групу „SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK“. Да бисте отказали пријаву у ову групу и престали да примате имејлове од ње, пошаљите имејл на [email protected]. Да бисте постављали у овој групи, пошаљите е-поруку на [email protected]. Посетите ову групу на http://groups.google.com/group/senet. За више опција посетите https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
